Predicting the end of the world - FAIL

December 18, 2012 |By JAKE ELLISON

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What about before the beginning of the “Common Era”? There was Zoroastrianism. Looking around the web, there’s a lot of give and take about exactly what end and how the Iranian prophet Zarathustra was talking about in rough 1300 BCE, but here’s what The New York times said in 1999: “Zoroastrians ‘taught that the world has a beginning and an end and forms the field of a cosmic battle between good and evil,’ between Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Wisdom, and Ahriman, who is wicked, said James Russell, a professor at Harvard University. Zoroaster never specified a date for the world's end. But ‘he suggested it would end with the coming of a savior; and that the world would then be cleansed of death and wickedness and people would rise from the dead,’ Mr. Russell said.”
(Photo: A Zoroastrian priest with Bactrian-style head-dress from 3rd-2nd century BCE. Wikimedia Commons.)

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What about before the beginning of the “Common Era”? There was Zoroastrianism. Looking around the web, there’s a lot of give and take about exactly what end and how the Iranian prophet Zarathustra was talking about in rough 1300 BCE, but here’s what The New York times said in 1999: “Zoroastrians ‘taught that the world has a beginning and an end and forms the field of a cosmic battle between good and evil,’ between Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Wisdom, and Ahriman, who is wicked, said James Russell, a professor at Harvard University. Zoroaster never specified a date for the world's end. But ‘he suggested it would end with the coming of a savior; and that the world would then be cleansed of death and wickedness and people would rise from the dead,’ Mr. Russell said.”
(Photo: A Zoroastrian priest with Bactrian-style head-dress from 3rd-2nd century BCE. Wikimedia Commons.)